Chapter 372: Geography

With Zhao Yun capturing Julu Taishou Guo Dian, by March 27, at the end of Shen, the battle to encircle and annihilate the Julu Army was basically over.

The cavalry at the head of the battalion grabbed the prisoners and withdrew from the battle and returned to the camp to rest. And the battlefield was left to Lu Kuang in Handan City. He organized the Handan people to go out of the city and began to clean up the battlefield in an orderly manner.

This battle was true, and the Taishan army was very tired. The longest of them had been fighting for nine hours in a row, that is to say, since last night.

The secretion of dopamine and adrenal hormones in the fight makes them feel tired. But now that they have returned to the camp to rest, they know how tired they are.

For example, Xi Shen of the Flying Leopard Army, after the war, his soldiers were concerned about the injury of their own military master, so they bought a chicken from the people who came out of Handan to make up for their own military master.

When the hot roast chicken was brought to Xi Shen, Xi Shen devoured it, but before he ate a few bites, the person was crooked, lying on the table and falling asleep. It wasn't for Xi Shen and snoring, Hu Bing thought he was dead at the time.

Such as Xi Shen, abound in the Taishan Army.

But the more this is the case, the more Zhang Chong is more vigilant. He first arranged for the battalions participating in the battle today to rest, and then hurriedly dispatched Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang in Handan City to go out of the city to take over the garrison.

Then he ordered the leaders of the battalions who had not participated in the battle during the day to help the people and step up the cleaning of the battlefield.

The Julu Army is the crown of Hebei counties, and its financial and combat power are second to none in Hebei.

Therefore, although the Taishan army fought hard, the entire capture was unusually rich.

The battlefield was full of scattered baggage, and the ox carts were pushed everywhere, and there was everything, but there was little corn. This is also the realistic reason why the Julu Army wants to step up its breakthrough.

Rows of Han prisoners were escorted to the erected prisoner camp, where they were registered and distributed.

After that, there were countless strong men and men, under the organization of the officials of Handan City, transporting the wounded, carrying the captured, and burying the corpses.

In short, on this day, the Taishan army was busy up and down, experiencing the troubles of happiness.

The second day after the war, March 28.

The well-rested units and battalions of the Taishan Army took over the garrison with full spirit, and Zhang Chong also began to look through the list of seizures this time.

As a strong local army, the Julu Army naturally has rich human resources, although it was cut down a lot by the Taishan army before, but the remaining captured military officials are still full, and the registered names are written in a whole volume.

Zhang Chong first glanced at it to see if there was anything familiar.

At that time, Zhang Chong's eyes were greeted by a man named Tian Feng. This person Zhang Chong knows that Yuan Shao is the mastermind behind him! Later generations often blow, such as Yuan Shao used Tian Feng's plan, the world does not know.

This kind of words, the former Zhang Chongxin. At that time, he was obsessed with the so-called heroic view of history, and of course believed that personal wisdom could stabilize the world. But after four or five years of struggle in this time and space, Zhang Chong no longer believes in this set.

He knows that all people have huge limitations, and their thoughts and thoughts are limited by their own positions, patterns, and insights. For example, many of the strategies that Tian Feng offered to Yuan Shao in history, although they showed a certain degree of foresight in history, were not the case at that time.

For example, before the battle of Guandu, he strongly advocated that Yuan Shao let him divide his troops into many branches before attacking Cao Cao, and take advantage of the void to go out, Cao Cao saved the left and hit his right, and saved the right to attack his left, so that his army was exhausted, and the people could not work in peace, so they should not fight him in a decisive battle.

History says that Yuan Shao did not listen to his strategy and insisted on the decisive battle of Guandu. But in fact, before Guandu, Yuan Shao repeatedly sent troops south to attack Cao Cao, but they were all defeated by Cao Cao without exception.

In other words, at that time, Yuan Shao looked powerful, but his troops were weak. Cao Cao looked small, but his troops were strong. In other words, in a unilateral battle, Yuan Shao couldn't defeat Cao Cao's elite soldiers at all.

In this case, while you still have an advantage, you can only win with one blow. If you really want to follow what Tian Feng said, what kind of protracted war should be engaged, not to mention that Cao Cao has the Central Plains, which is the first-class fertile soil in the world, just say that they attack each other, and Yuan Shao is the first to collapse.

Why?

In the case that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao shared the Yellow River, Cao Cao could also send troops north to constantly harass Yuan Shao's river

North, and this kind of small-scale use of troops, Cao Cao's elite soldiers have more advantages. In this kind of special operation, Yuan Shao will become weaker and weaker, so how can he talk about a protracted war?

So in Zhang Chong's view, this is Tian Feng's limitation.

Ordinary people can see one, he is more powerful than ordinary people, he can see two, but his mistake is that he doesn't see three, and he also treats those who see three as one.

Not to mention that Tian Feng's stubbornness and guilt are still the biggest label, judging from Zhang Chong, this person is too arrogant.

But these are also Zhang Chong's evaluations of Tian Feng in history, he hasn't seen a real person yet, how can he not assert it, otherwise it won't be a letter?

But now there is no hurry, let Tian Feng go first, there will always be a chance later.

After that, Zhang Chong looked at the list of captured Julu Army officials one by one.

The first and first to be captured was Zhao Fu, the captain of the Northern Military Academy of the Julu Army.

The Julu Army is a large army of 15,000 people, although some of them are recruited by Guo Dian himself, but its establishment is still in accordance with the Han system, that is, the establishment of the Julu Army is a huge establishment of five armies and fifteen battalions.

Among them, the left military captain, the southern military captain, and the right military captain were successively beheaded by the Taishan Army's central guards, and among the five major captains, there were only one left in the middle military academy Guo Pu and the northern military captain Zhao Fu.

In the previous breakout battle, Guo Pu and Zhao Fu also led the breakthrough elite together.

With the collapse of the war, Zhao Fu and Guo Pu lost contact. He took the three generals and the three soldiers to hide in a trench, but was discovered in the first wave of the Taishan army's charge.

At that time, the Taishan army who found them saw that these three people had fine skin and tender meat, and a pair of good teeth, and knew that these three people were big fish.

Zhao Fu also knew that he couldn't run, so he hurriedly admitted his identity.

In the prisoner of war camp, he met the separated Guo Pu. He surrendered to the Taishan army on his own initiative, and he did not pretend to be a child of the Guo family at all.

is also because one voluntarily surrendered and the other was captured, Guo Pu's treatment is obviously much better than Zhao Fu's. It was also under Guo Pu's certification that Zhao Fu's identity was confirmed.

Zhao Fu and Guo Pu are the two most important generals, and under his two lists, there are a bunch of generals and generals, all of whom are not important figures.

Later, a batch will be screened, and those who have blood feuds will be killed, and those who are honest will be absorbed.

As for the list of some scribes, Zhang Chong didn't look at it much, and he saw the names of Zang Hong and Tian Feng.

This Zang Hong is the son of Zang Min, and Zhang Chong only knows it now. After knowing that he had treated Zang Min's body well, the man also expressed his gratitude to Zhang Chong and made another request.

It was he who wanted to return to his hometown with his father's coffin, and he said that this must be a very excessive request. Because he is a prisoner, life and death are in Zhang Chong's hands. But he still asked Zhang Chong to fulfill his filial piety.

Thinking of Zang Hong's request, Zhang Chong thought for a while, then ticked a box behind Zang Hong's name and decided to agree to let Zang Hong return to his hometown.

In the final analysis, Zhang Chong has this pattern and strength to put such a righteous man.

Turning over here, Zhang Chong looked at the last two, and most important names.

They are the giant deer Taishou Guo Dian and the former Taiping Dao general envoy Wei Shui.

Guo Dian was caught by his brother-in-law, and this must be a great credit to Zhao Yun. Originally, he thought that Zhao Yun caught Guo Dian because someone in the army helped him, and deliberately gave credit to Zhao Yun.

But later he learned that Zhao Yun had already taken a captive who had been Guo Dian's cook with him, and corrected him all the way. In this way, the biggest captive fell into the hands of Zhao Yun.

For the disposal of Guo Dian and Wei Shui, Zhang Chong has already thought about it.

Guo Dianming was punished, he killed too many Yellow Turban soldiers, and in the previous battle of Julu, he directly killed thousands of prisoners, and this person was bound to die.

So, Zhang Chong put a cross with a red pen behind Guo Dian's name.

As for Wei Shui, this person will not survive, but Zhang Chong does not plan to do it himself, but hands him over to the Hebei Yellow Turban.

After the Guangzong incident, the Hebei Yellow Turban has been cowering in Guangzong, and has not contacted Zhang Chong, nor has he taken the initiative to attack the Han army

With the opportunity to escort Wei Shui, contact with that side.

After all, Yellow Turban Taishan is still a family.

Zhang Chong took the Zhonghu army to stay in Handan for a while, mainly to deal with the prisoners of Zhongshan and Julu.

This time Handan broke the siege, the Taishan army captured a total of 4,000 Zhongshan officials, 8,000 Zhuangkou, 6,000 Julu County officials, 7,000 Zhuangkou, and other heavy weapons.

And in this battle, the Taishan army fought before and after, and won the first 3,400 levels, which is already a very exaggerated number. You must know that the two Han soldiers of Zhongshan Kingdom and Julu combined had a total of 23,000 people, and there were 3,400 beheadings, almost fifteen points of the total.

The way the Taishan army calculates military merits has inherited the calculation of the number of beheadings since the Qin and Han dynasties. This kind of calculation is the most likely to be indiscriminately killed by the people below. For example, the current commanders of the two rivers, in the war against Xianbei, there is no small victory, and the level of prisoners is bluffed, in order to invite rewards.

So these days, the scribes of the Taishan Army have been stepping up to check the heads, and these hideous and fearful severed heads all show the horror of the battlefield. It's spring, and if it's summer, the scribes will faint in the stench.

These days, the Taishan army is also stepping up the work of mobilizing prisoners.

To be honest, this time it was a bit harder.

As the most elite soldiers in Hebei, the Julu Army and the Zhongshan National Soldiers were generally very loyal to the Han family.

Especially the Julu Army, many of them were killed from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, even if they were defeated by the Taishan Army this time, they still regarded the Taishan Army and the Yellow Turban Army as the same in their hearts.

In other words, they don't look down on the Tarzan Army.

Many of the officials in them, when they saw that the Taishan army officials ate the same as ordinary soldiers, said with disdain:

"I've become a military official, and I still eat this? That's a fart officer."

This is still the Julu soldiers here, and the Zhongshan national soldiers are more complicated.

There are mainly three systems of Zhongshan national soldiers here, one part is the elite recruited and trained by the prime minister, one part is the old Great Wall beacon soldiers, and some are the powerful troops.

Haoqiang's trilogy is the simplest, because these people are generally treated as cattle and horses, and in fact, they don't have much identification with the main family. After stripping away the powerful military officials at the grassroots level, these Qiantou tribes quickly returned to their hearts.

The elite of the Prime Minister of Zhongshan is also easy to say. Zhang Chong's collection of Zang Min made these people have a great change in their opinion of the Taishan Army, especially after seeing that Zhang Chong also released Zang Hong, these people have nothing to say.

In the end, Zhang Chong gave the last remaining hundred or so that he was really unwilling to vote to Zang Hong, and asked them to protect Zang Min's body and go south to return to his hometown, and the rest did not hesitate to vote.

But here it is different. These people look down on the Taishan Army very much, because they think that these people are the murderers of the civil war, and they have the ability to fight the Xianbei people like them?

Zhang Chong didn't say much about these, but only asked people to throw this group of 1,000 or so Fengsui bastards into the prisoner camp and use them as baggage soldiers.

Just kidding, what he Zhang Chong wants is elite soldiers, he wants good soldiers, what kind of bastard soldiers do he really want?

After this battle, the Taishan army absorbed about 3,000 qualified soldiers from more than 10,000 prisoners to supplement the battalions. not only supplemented the original battle losses, but also set up a special battalion head, with the newly surrendered Qinghe man Zhu Ling as the general, Guo Pu as the general and deputy, and the entire battalion head was basically a giant deer person.

After that, Zhang Chong trained his troops in Handan and stepped up the run-in of each battalion.

Obviously, Zhang Chong did not plan to withdraw his troops back to Yecheng, and he still had to make a big move.

Sure enough, on the day of April 8, Zhang Chong received a military report from Guan Yu in the big tent, in which he said that he had taken Nanhe, Pingxiang, and Renxian in the east, and had conquered Julu two days earlier.

It turned out that soon after Guan Yu took Xiangguo, Zhang Chong asked him to lead his troops eastward and take advantage of the emptiness of Julu County to take the entire southern region.

Don't think that now that the Giant Deer Army seems to have been completely wiped out, you can calmly clean up the giant deer. In fact, there will be no vacuum in this territory, if you don't occupy it, others will occupy it.

Maybe the next day, a certain hero will appear first-class, and take three or five people to occupy the city

。 Then use the resources in the city to pull out another wave of soldiers.

Of course, these soldiers will not be elite, but if they are used to defend the city, they will still bring trouble to Zhang Chong's later north.

Therefore, Zhang Chong asked Guan Yu to make a time difference and take these areas before the news of the destruction of the Julu Army returned to Julu.

Of course, that's all you can take, and the mountains further north are empty. But if Zhang Chong continues to go north, his geopolitical situation will be very dangerous. Because the long north-south depth is too easy for people to stab in the waist.

And now in Zhang Chong's waist is his good ally, the Hebei Yellow Turban.

Because Zhang Chong successively took the area of Xiangguo in the north of Zhao State, and the southern area of Julu County, it was officially connected to the Hebei Yellow Turban entrenched in Anping Kingdom and Qinghe.

And this time, with Guan Yu's messenger going south, there was an envoy from the Yellow Turban of Hebei, or his old acquaintance of Zhang Chong, that is, Ma Yuanyi.

After he entered the account, the first thing he said when he saw Zhang Chong was:

"The great sage and good teacher want to see you, let you go to Guangzong to see him."

This made Zhang Chong silent, whether to go to Guangzong or not?